This retreat, led by queer and trans teachers, will offer you the opportunity to explore & discover known & unknown parts of yourself through the experience of guided & silent meditations, holistic coaching, yoga, movement and dance sessions, massage therapy, somatic drawing exercises, dharma talks with dialogue and chanting for those who like to.

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     As we go upstream against mainstream narratives of lack & anxiety in a monetary world view, there is an island, a resting place of sanctuary. A place of ease we can slowly become familiar with, allowing this ease to grow as our trust in ourselves grows to rely on resting into our body, one way is meditations on the elements, (oxygen, liquids, temperatures, solidities) amongst other embodied meditations. Our society gives little value to rest, so often pushing us towards a sense of lack & not being good enough: let's have some time to refresh, resource & rest .....
 
In our sensual bodies lives not only kindness for ourselves & much needed love, but also fluidity & groundedness as essential oils for these uncertain times. Fluidity to duck when we need to, suppleness to sway when the winds of the world are too strong & groundedness to establish wholesome boundaries & a stable sense of presence .

Coming into friendship with our innate gentle & supple strengths, we can meet our edges, our feelings of non belonging, our residues of not being understood.....& find our roots, our feet firmly planted in releasing what is no longer necessary, allowing ourselves to be fully our own being, & to enjoy this.

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  Based in classical Buddhist elements meditations (and open to those from all spiritual backgrounds), from the first foundation of mindfulness, the four elements of air, water, earth & fire, I invite meditators into this crucible of kindness & steadiness. To come into embodiment through deep connection with sensations of skin, bones, fluids, breathing, heat, energy.

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This crucible is not a bypassing of our troubles. Finding ease within our dwelling, can be a challenge for LGBTQIA+ peoples who have often suffered from the shyness of feeling like the "outsider", through to extreme self-consciousness, or body dysphoria and/or the stress of living in a hetero-patriarchal system...

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The disconnection between our mind and body is very often extreme and causes suffering. When we begin to understand  that it's possible to connect the two in a gentle and peaceful way (through meditation, yoga, movement , bodywork, and discussion), suddenly a door opens to a new way of seeing ourselves and life.

We can by moments find a pathway, often a small jungle path, into this ease in our own bodies...sometimes it's just a whisper of this opening we hear in meditation leading to a trust in ourselves that we can explore these unknown paths.
This offering a taste of embodied moments can lubricate a confidence in ourselves of the awakened aliveness residing in our bones. Giving ourselves experience of the impermanence & impersonal nature of our shared commonalities, (water in the body, air in the lungs, capillaries etc), soothes our dwelling, into coming out of anxiety as an old survival habit, into befriending the offerings of our inner eco system.

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Pain is often associated with parts of ourselves that we dislike and reject… in actuality, it goes deeper than that… When we understand the core of our pain and how to deal with it, it can be very powerful and healing.

To be very clear: this is not to dismiss the difficulties we experience as Trans/Queer/non Binary people but to gather strength, clarity & some restfulness for our nervous systems...

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Come one or two days before if you wish to relax into the place.

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